Poem - A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal Class 9 Worksheet English Chapter 1

Q.1. Read the following passages and answer the questions
“No motion has she now, no force.
She neither hears nor sees
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.”
(i) Name the poem and the poet.
(ii) Why does the beloved has no motion and no force?
(iii) What kind of motion does his beloved have now?
(iv) What changes have come in his beloved now?

Q.2. How much does the poet love his beloved? How can we say that?

Q.3. What does the poet feel about his beloved? Is he contented?

Q.4. What is the state of mind of the poet when he comes to know that his beloved is no more?

Q.5. How does the poet imagine his beloved to be, after death?

Q.6. Read the following passages and answer the questions
“A slumber did my spirit seal.
I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.”
(i) What is the poet talking about in these lines?
(ii) What does the poet mean by slumber?
(iii) Who is she in the above lines?
(iv) Why does the poet have no fears?

Q.7. What does William Wordsworth talking about in the poem?

Q.8. How does the poet react to his beloved one’s death?

Q.9. Which lines of the poem shows that the beloved is no more with the poet?

Q.10. The poet has lost his beloved because of which he feels lonely and a great shock. Explain his state of mind.

Reference to Context Questions

Q1: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
A slumber did my spirit seal
I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
(a) What was the poet’s state of mind when Lucy was alive?
(b) What was the ‘human fear’ he did not have?
(c) Why did he not have this fear?
(d) How does the poet imagine her to be, after death?

Q2: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
A slumber did my spirit seal-
I had no human fears.
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
(a) Who does ‘she’ refer to?
(b) What could she not feel?
(c) Explain “the touch of earthly years”.
(d) Why does the poet say that his loved one is rolling round in the way of the earth?

Q3: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
No motion has she now, no force –
She neither hears nor sees,
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.
(a) What happened to the poet’s beloved?
(b) Where is she now?
(c) How does she become an inseparable part of nature?
(d) Explain: she is in “earth’s diurnal course with rocks and stones and trees”?

Q4: Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
No motion has she now, no force –
She neither hears nor sees,
Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course
With rocks and stones and trees.
(a) What does the word ‘slumber’ refer to?
(b) How will time not affect the poet’s beloved?
(c) ‘No motion has she now, no force.’ Why is ‘she’ motionless?
(d) What is the central theme of the poem?

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